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I agree with you on the distinction. Meta's models are not even open weights, and yet they are claiming that their models are open source.

Whenever Meta claims their models are open source, you have to double-check.

SAM License (https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam3/blob/main/LICENSE):

iv. Your use of the SAM Materials will not involve or encourage others to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the underlying components of the SAM Materials.

v. You are not the target of Trade Controls and your use of SAM Materials must comply with Trade Controls. You agree not to use, or permit others to use, SAM Materials for any activities subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or end uses prohibited by Trade Controls, including those related to military or warfare purposes, nuclear industries or applications, espionage, or the development or use of guns or illegal weapons.

b. If you institute litigation or other proceedings against Meta or any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the SAM Materials, outputs or results, or any portion of any of the foregoing, constitutes infringement of intellectual property or other rights owned or licensable by you, then any licenses granted to you under this Agreement shall terminate as of the date such litigation or claim is filed or instituted. You will indemnify and hold harmless Meta from and against any claim by any third party arising out of or related to your use or distribution of the SAM Materials.

The DINOv3 License (https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3/blob/main/LICENSE...) is similar but with the model names swapped.

It's always nice when a model's weights are released, but Meta's models are not open source because their weights always come with weird restrictions.

European Commission press release:

"Commission provides guidance to Google for AI interoperability on Android and sharing of Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act"

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

Thunderbird supports threading in the message list pane (which displays replies next to the email that was replied to), but a conversation mode for the message pane is still in development:

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/true-threaded-conversat...

In the meantime, the Thunderbird Conversations add-on provides a conversation view that looks like classic Gmail, which is probably what you're looking for:

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail...

"They" can always be used to casually refer to someone when their gender is irrelevant to the conversation.

While I appreciate that Krea made this model's weights available for download, it's not open source when the license (https://huggingface.co/krea/Krea-2-Raw/blob/main/LICENSE.pdf) has these terms:

2.3 Revenue Threshold for Commercial Use. Commercial Use under this Agreement of the Krea Model, Derivatives, or Outputs is permitted only if you (including all affiliated entities under common ownership or control) have total company-wide annual revenue of less than one million United States dollars ($1,000,000 USD), calculated on a trailing twelve-month basis and including all revenue from all sources. If you meet or exceed this threshold, you must obtain a separate enterprise license from Krea prior to any Commercial Use. If your revenue meets or exceeds this threshold at any time during your use of the Krea Model under this Agreement, you must immediately cease Commercial Use and contact Krea. Enterprise license inquiries may be directed to opensource@krea.ai.

4.1 General Restrictions. You shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: (a) Use the Krea Model, any Derivative, or any Output in violation of applicable law, regulation, this Agreement, or the Acceptable Use Policy;

4.2 Content Filtering Requirement. You must implement reasonable and appropriate Content Filter measures to detect, prevent, and mitigate the generation or distribution of prohibited, harmful, or unlawful content through your deployment of the Krea Model or any Derivative. Such measures may include, but are not limited to: (a) open-source content classifiers, such as Falconsai/nsfw_image_detection, NudeNet, or CompVis safety checker; (b) commercial content moderation APIs, such as Hive Moderation or Microsoft Azure AI Content Safety; (c) manual human review processes; and/or (d) any combination of the foregoing or other technically appropriate measures.

4.4 Acceptable Use Policy Compliance. You must comply with the Acceptable Use Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

The acceptable use policy is on the website (https://www.krea.ai/krea-2-use-policy) and includes:

You shall not use or allow others to use the Krea 2 Raw Model or Krea 2 Turbo Model, any Derivative, or any Output for any of the following purposes:

(8) Circumventing or removing any safety measures, usage restrictions, content filters, content provenance, or watermarking mechanisms implemented by Krea or any deployer;

Pay to remove bloatware? Brave is begging to be forked, LibreWolf-style.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581532

Not impressed to see the official Pebble app and app store be closed source once again. Looks like Pebble is taking the Google Play route by making it inconvenient to use the underlying open source software without a proprietary service.

No, the main ForgeFed repo is on Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed/ForgeFed

The README in both repos links to the main Codeberg repo and says that the GitHub repo is a mirror.

Anubis has a commercial version called BotStopper that allows the mascot to be changed:

https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

But, Anubis uses the plain MIT license, so you can modify it to remove the branding yourself: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/LICENSE

If Anubis used a license with that mascot requirement, it would not be free and open source.

When I switched to KDE/Plasma 5 to get fractional scaling it was extremely unstable

KDE Plasma 6 made major improvements and has excellent fractional scaling, the best I've seen in a Linux desktop environment and comparable to scaling in Windows 10-11. I encourage you to give it a try.

From the class action complaint:

The Deception of the Challenged Representations and Unlawful Marketing & Sale of the Products. The Challenged Representations misled reasonable consumers into believing the Products possessed certain AI qualities, capabilities, and features, they simply do not have. As a result, Apple charged consumers for Products they would not have purchased, or at least not at its premium price, had the advertising been honest. Beyond exploiting unsuspecting consumers, Apple also gained an unfair advantage over competitors in the market who do not tout non-existent AI features, or who actually deliver them as promised.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25599001/0001-03-19-2...

The false advertising violates the California Unfair Competition Law and consumer protection laws of other U.S. states, according to the legal filing.

From the specs:

Interfaces

Supports USB4 with DisplayPort output and USB-PD power input on the rear two slots

Supports USB 3.2 with DisplayPort output and USB-PD power input on the front two slots

https://frame.work/laptop13?tab=specs

It's a shame that Framework hasn't managed to implement a pointing stick on its laptops. If they offered one, I would already be using their laptops.

The Framework feature request is here: https://community.frame.work/t/responded-any-chance-of-track...

You can't scroll with just your thumb, while you can scroll with a TrackPoint while holding down the middle mouse button. Using your thumb on a trackpad with your hand positioned above the keyboard is also less accurate and restricted to a narrower range of motion.

HP discontinued pointing sticks on all of their laptops, including their business workstations, a couple of years ago. Dell did the same, but a bit earlier.

Not needing to reposition your hand to switch between typing and operating the mouse makes the TrackPoint super efficient. The difference is even greater in cramped places like airplane seats that don't have enough room to place a separate mouse or comfortably use a touchpad.

On the other hand, the use of WordPress servers is in no way covered by the GPL. WP Engine can pay for their own servers the same way Bluehost used to.

Archive before deletion: https://web.archive.org/web/20240518030444/https://old.reddi...

There are free and open source apps for Android that automatically lock the device when the accelerometer detects rapid acceleration, which is a simple detection method. For example, Private Lock is on F-Droid:

- Private Lock (source): https://github.com/wesaphzt/privatelock

- Private Lock (F-Droid): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.wesaphzt.privatelock/

The Cato Institute is libertarian, so them being anti-interventionist shouldn't be surprising. The article was written by a "weekly columnist at Antiwar.com" according to the author's bio, which explains the tone of the headline.

An included tip would incentivize getting customers out the door to get new butts in the seats and collect more included tips.

Faster service with honest pricing? Sounds good to me.

avbroot is not officially supported by CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, but it does work with both OSes. The point of avbroot is to make root access available to trusted Android apps while leaving commands such as "fastboot flash" and "fastboot erase" disabled.

There will always be a subset of users who prioritize functionality over security. This includes anyone who would root an Android device (and anyone who would use a desktop computer running most distributions of Linux, macOS, or Windows).

I'll be glad to reconsider using root on Android if all of the functions of App Manager's "block trackers" feature[1] and Basic Call Recorder[2] were available on Android without root.

[1] App Manager: https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager

[2] BCR (Basic Call Recorder): https://github.com/chenxiaolong/BCR

No, over-the-air updates are not supported. The instructions for flashing updates patched with avbroot are here:

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot?tab=readme-ov-file#u...

Anyone who prefers root access on Android with a locked bootloader (on the OSes that support it) can use avbroot:

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/avbroot

Works great with CalyxOS and GrapheneOS.

With those restrictions, Akaunting is definitely not open source, but it is source-available.

Both KDE and GNOME have improved dramatically over the years in stability and user-friendliness. The leap from KDE Plasma 5 to 6 was massive and brought proper DPI scaling to all displays for both X11 and Wayland applications, on par with what Windows offers.

CalyxOS has been working well for me and I recommend it. I appreciate how the included microG allows me to disable Firebase Cloud Messaging for any app that I don't need push notifications for. Having push notifications without Google Ads or Google Analytics is great.

LocalSend is also on Codeberg:

https://codeberg.org/localsend/localsend

While GitHub is not open source, LocalSend is under the MIT License: https://codeberg.org/localsend/localsend/src/branch/main/LIC...